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    Haiti: How to Achieve a Justice System that Takes Gender Equality into Account

    Ministere a la Condition Femenine et aux Droits des Femmes, 1990
    After an analysis of women's situation in Haiti, the national Ministry of Women's Affairs (Minist?re - la Condition Feminine et aux Droits des Femmes - MCFDF) has come up with 3 areas that should be seen by the state as priorities for intervention and reform: violence against women, legal discrimination on the basis of gender, and the feminisation of poverty.
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    Gender Country Profile: Haiti

    Women, War and Peace, 2005
    What has been the impact of conflict on Haitian women? What is their human rights and economic rights situation? This country profile offers facts and figures that give an overview of women's situation in Haiti.
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    Expanding the Care Continuum for HIV/AIDS: Bringing Carers into Focus

    Population Council, 2004
    Who cares for the carers? This question is at the heart of this paper, which sets out to provide a review of existing literature on unpaid care work in the context of HIV and AIDS. What it found was a resounding silence; that the role of women in HIV care outside the health sector is largely taken for granted by policymakers and programme planners.
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    Gender and Energy for Sustainable Development - A Toolkit and Resource Guide

    ENERGIA: International Network on Gender & Sustainable Energy, 2004
    About 2 billion people throughout the world rely on traditional fuels (e.g. wood, charcoal, dung, and agricultural residues) for cooking, lighting and heating. Women and girls are responsible for collecting these fuels in many developing countries. They spend considerable time and effort doing this which greatly limits their ability to engage in educational and income-generating activities.
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    Women, Poverty and Labour Market in Argentina and Paraguay

    2003
    What is the relation between gender inequality, poverty and employment? In this book, three policy oriented studies look at how to eradicate poverty and strengthen gender equality through work.
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    Gender and the Millennium Development Goals

    Oxfam, 2005
    What are the strengths and weaknesses, from a gender perspective, of using the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) to understand and address poverty? Contributors to this collection come from both sides of the debate, yet all seek to inspire readers to action.
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    Expectations versus realities in gender-responsive budget initiatives

    United Nations [UN] Research Institute for Social Development, 2005
    This paper addresses the question of how well gender-responsive budget (GRB) initiatives have done in practice compared with the claims and expectations about what they can achieve?
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    Evaluation of DFID Development Assistance: Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment, Phase II Thematic Evaluation: Voice and Accountability

    Department for International Development, UK, 2005
    The concepts of voice and accountability form the core values of good governance - of ensuring that citizens have a voice in decisions made about their lives and that states and other actors hear those voices and respond to them.
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    Gendered Analysis of the Working for Water Programme: A Case Study of the Tsitsikama Working for Water Programme

    2005
    The Working for Water (WfW) programme is one of the Expanded Public Works Programmes (EPWP) housed within the South African Department of Water Affairs and Forestry. As both the EPWP and WfW programme focus strongly on the employment of women, this paper conducts a gender analysis of the WfW project.
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    Our Common Interest, Report of the Commission for Africa

    Commission for Africa, 2005
    This year promises to be a decisive one for Africa. In 2005, the United Nations (UN) will conduct a five-year review of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) which aim to halve world poverty (most of which is in Africa) by 2015.

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